Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival

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Michel Rosenfeld, Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Yeshiva University,Susanna Mancini, Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Bologna Law

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Constitutional Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and most recently with Andras Sajo of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

Susanna Mancini is the Adjunct Professor of International Law and Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna.

1. Introduction, Susanna Mancini and Michel RosenfeldPart I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Conflicts between Secularism and Religion 2. Conflicts Between General Laws and Religious Norms, Dieter Grimm3. The Context of Secularism: A Critical Appraisal of the Post-Secular Argument, Nadia Urbinati4. The Myth of the Neutral State and the Individualization of Religion: The Relationship Between State and Religion in the Face of Fundamentalism, Karl-Heinz Ladeur5. Preliminaries to a Concept of Constitutional Secularism, Andras Sajo6. Recasting Secularism as One Conception of the Good Among Many in a Post-Secular Constitutional Polity, Michel RosenfeldPart II: Religion, Secularism and the Public Square 7. The Tempting of Europe, the Political Seduction of the Cross, Susanna Mancini8. On the Secularization of the Public Square: Jews in France and in the United States, Pierre Birnbaum9. Sovereignty and Laicite, Michel Troper10. Egypt's New Constitution: the Islamist Difference, Lama Abu-Odeh11. The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation, Ran Hirschl and Ayelet ShacharPart III: Religion, Secularism and Women's Equality 12. Headscarf v. Burqa: Two French bans with different meanings, Patrick Weil13. Veiling and Women's Intelligibility, John Borneman14. Reproductive Rights in a Jewish and Democratic State, Daphne Barak-ErezPart IV: Religious Perspectives and the Liberal State 15. One among many? The Catholic Church between universalism and pluralism, Gustavo Zagrebelsky16. Religious Marriage in a Liberal State, Gidi Sapir and Daniel Statman17. Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions Of Western Secularism in the 'Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities' (Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat) Discourse, Andrew F. MarchPart V: The Confrontation between Secularism and Religion in Specific Contexts: Education and Free Speech 18. The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel and the Right to an Exclusively Religious Education, Gila Stopler19. Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of Muhammad, Robert Post